Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Les Lancaster


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The result was delete. The Bushranger One ping only 02:16, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Brian Les Lancaster

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No independent sources. Positions and awards are superficially impressive sounding, but don't appear to me to meet WP:ACADEMIC. Can't find any evidence that the Scientific and Medical Network Best Book Award exists, much less that it's notable. Dust-jacket blurb by Jonathan Sacks seems awfully flimsy.

Article was created by a promotional sockfarm (see Sockpuppet investigations/Kspellskarthik). Grayfell (talk) 01:24, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete no indication of passing any guideline for notability of academics.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:21, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Refs don't establish notability. Recently created article. Google returns nothing of interest. Unclear how sock puppet farm is related to the article, if the article is paid for I hope he didn't pay much. Szzuk (talk) 22:28, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:50, 23 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep -- Persons with the title "professor" in the English sense are almost invariably notable. I thinkthat the title "professor emeritus" is only given on retirement from being a professor.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I understand that it's a prestigious rank, per Academic ranks in the United Kingdom, but I still don't believe this meets WP:ACADEMIC. The only mention of him I could find on Liverpool John Moores University's website was this routine profile, which is underwhelming, even by the less stringent standards academics are held to on Wikipedia. Grayfell (talk) 22:49, 27 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. Nothing particularly notable under WP:ACADEMIC. I'd expect a bit more for a professor to have enough material for an article. Article was also written by a blocked SPA account that was having issues with WP:FRINGE. Kingofaces43 (talk) 16:25, 28 December 2015 (UTC)


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